Acanthalobus

Acanthalobus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Tetrigidae
Subfamily: Criotettiginae
Tribe: Criotettigini
Genus: Acanthalobus
Hancock, 1904

Acanthalobus is a genus of Asian ground-hoppers (Orthoptera: Caelifera) in the tribe Criotettigini; species are recorded from Afganistan to India.

Species

The Orthoptera Species File includes:

  1. Acanthalobus afghanus (Cejchan, 1969)
  2. Acanthalobus curticornis Hancock, 1915
  3. Acanthalobus gariyabandicus (Gupta & Chandra, 2018)
  4. Acanthalobus gidhavensis (Gupta & Chandra, 2018)
  5. Acanthalobus inornatus (Walker, 1871) - type species (by subsequent designation of Criotettix saginatus Bolívar, 1887)
  6. Acanthalobus latifrons (Hebard, 1930)

References

  1. ↑ Hancock JL (1904) The Tettigidae of Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 2, 97–157.
  2. 1 2 Orthoptera Species File: genus Acanthalobus Hancock, 1904 (retrieved 13 February 2026)
  3. ↑ Subedi, Madan; Kasalo, Niko; Skejo, Josip (September 2025). "Definition of the pygmy grasshopper subfamily Criotettiginae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with a preliminary catalogue of genera". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 318: 133–151. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2025.08.003. ISSN 0044-5231.